One thinks of Peruvian music as all panpipes and El Condor Pasa. One would be wrong. Romantic trios, Colonial epoch dances, and Amazonian pop sounds all co-exist with another major influence – the legacy of African-influenced music mostly from the Southern coastal region. Previously ignored outside of the area of its origins, Afro-Peruvian songs are far more popular today than ever before. Hopefully, this little  Al compas del mundo  drop in the bucket will serve to further that growth. Less known still is the presence of Black taste-makers in Ecuador. Largely residing in the northwestern province of Esmeraldas, they make up roughly half the population there and wield a sizable impact on any popular (read “dance”) music charts. Unsurprisingly, Esmeraldas borders Colombia where Black rhythms and dance styles continue to influence the world’s dance floors. The cumbia and other popular dance styles originated here and are imitated from Mexico to Argentina. Those people know...

It’s blues time again on El compas del mundo.  And were going back to some of the forefathers,  those that could be caught on vinyl. Bringing to Mexico and the streaming world all the gravel-voiced hootin’ ‘n hollerin’, jumpin’ ‘n jivin’, shimmyin’ and shakin’…though mostly painful recollections of how things have been, are, and always will be moving forward, world without end, amen. -J.H. The hearing and speech impaired begin to talk.   AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO – programa #61,  was first broadcast on Radioactiva.TX on 1-19-22 The original blues - USA  Play List 01 Cat-Iron - Poor Boy a Long, Long Way from Home 02 anonymous - Little Red Rooster 03 Pattman - Low Down Blues 04 Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues 05 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Big Fat Mama 06 James 'Son Ford' Thomas - 44 Blues 07 Robert Wilkins - I'll Go with Her Blues 08 Scott Dunbar - Lil' Liza Jane 09 Lovey Williams - I Feel So Good 10 Pink Anderson - Boll Weevil 11 Sam M...

Welcome to the land of a thousand potpourris. While we’re only handling one of them today, the past and the future speak for themselves. And what a story they tell. Fighting misfits in the jungles of Israel and the deserts of Colombia, we offer a world-wide view of melancholy and ennui…but not today. It’s energy time. Take a sip of Al compas del mundo and see if it doesn’t change your life. The motto of the moment is “complacency never”! – Jim Haas   "A Brother of Ska Walks into the Bar." AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO – programa #60,  was first broadcast on Radioactiva.TX on 1-12-22 Musical Energy Drink Play List   01 Amedee Pierre et l'Ivoiro Star - Pakora Ibo (Ivory Coast) 02 Baba Comandant and the Mandingo Band - Loga Fo Djelba (Burkina Faso) 03 Los Skarnales - Para Andar Igual (USA) 04 Xterminators - Rebel with a Cause (Jamaica) 05 Anakhi - Lok Boliyan (India) 06 Anonymous – Concert at a wedding in Luxor (Egypt) 07 Tony Grey Super 7 - Yem Efe (Nigeria) 0...

 AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO – programa #59, 1-5-23   The night they invented 'Lady of Spain' Playlist 01 Goran Bregović, Emir Kusturica - Ederlezi Time of the Gypsies (Serbo-Croatia) 02 Remedios Silva Pisa - Naci en Alamo ( Vengo) (Spain) 03 Goran Bregović - Kustino oro (Serbo-Croatia) 04 Estrella Morente - Tangos de Pepico (Spain) 05 Kalyi Jag - Beás Himnusz (Hungary) 06 Rota, Romanyi - Diri, Diri, So Kerdjan (Hungary) 07 Latcho Drom - Flamenco en Badajoz (Spain) 08 Ando Drom - Keren chave (Hungary) 09 Anonimo - Beás cigányzene (Hungary) 10 Goran Bregović - Ederlezi avela (Serbo-Croatia) 11 Estrella Morente - En lo alto del cerro (Spain) 12 Vasilis Paiteris - Dio-Dio (Dui-Dui) (Greece) 13 Barcelona Gipsy Balkan Orchestra con Fuat Güner - Dere Geliyor Dere (Turkey and pan-European) 14 Yiannis Saleas - To learn about love - Tin Agapi Yia Na Mathis (Greece)   I'd like to teach the world to Dui-Dui Romani, Gypsy…is there a difference? Ask them. Man...